After covering nearly 20 miles of wooded terrain Tuesday the search for a man that fled from police has been called off in Arkansas County.

Arkansas County Sheriff Allen Cheek said the white male, believed to be out of California, tried to land a single-engine plane on Gunnell Road, a gravel road outside of Casscoe.

The damage to the plane was not extensive.

The man fled from Keaton Township Constable Bubby Shelton at approximately 7 a.m. Tuesday. Cheek called in the Arkansas Department of Correction search unit who used bloodhounds and had officers on horseback to search for the man that was allegedly barefoot. There were 12 bloodhounds on the scene and the search crew covered approximately 19.5 miles of wooded area around the site.

“They did a superb job,” Cheek said.

Around 8 p.m. Tuesday Cheek’s office, along with the Department of Homeland Security that was also on the scene, learned information that led them to believe the pilot was no longer in the Arkansas County area, and the search was called off.

The plane has been barricaded, but is still at the scene, as Federal Aviation Administration officers will be on site today.

According to Cheek, Saline County could possibly have a felony charge on the man after fleeing from a Saline County Sheriff’s deputy Monday.